Globally, many people are losing their jobs due to the economic downturn. Some friends of mine have become victims of this.
It is very easy to get angry and bitter at your (previous) employer if you lose your job. And understandably so; after all, you put a lot of time and effort into your work [...]
In the previous post I recommended hiring a good SEO company to help you promote your site on the search engines.
But what if you can’t afford the costs of a good SEO company?
You can do SEO yourself. Quite easily. It just takes a bit of time and patience to learn. There are many good resources [...]
Joel Spolsky has a great article on one of the worst mistakes a software developer can make: Deciding to rewrite a piece of software from scratch.
I am referring to this article because 2 years ago i made this very mistake myself. It was only after the point of no return did i realize that i [...]
And actually listen to them!
I have been employed at places that have spent exorbitant amounts of time and money to hire intelligent and experienced professionals to do a job which, in my view, was beneath them.
But they were offered a high salary, so most of them came aboard.
After a little while at the company, almost [...]
My boss brought up a good question today:
“Why do people hire commercial premises if they are going to open less than 7 days a week?”
This is a good point because all commercial premises only return as an investment if they are actually being used to conduct business, not when they are closed. You pay the [...]
We “trimmed the fat” out of our business about 6 months ago by:
- Automating several of our processes with open source software
- Redesigning our core computer system and business process so that people could work completely from home, eliminating the need for a commercial premises.
- Switching from regular land line telephones to several VoIP alternatives [...]
Do not guarantee something you are unsure about.
Many of the sales people we have hired at our business have found this a bit difficult. About 90% of these “unsure” guarantees come back to bite the company and the sales person, costing time and ultimately money to fix something that could have been easily avoided.
Before [...]
Fast, cheap, good. You can have any combination of two of these things, but very rarely all 3.
This is essential to keep in mind when outsourcing anything.
People want stuff, and these days, people want stuff as fast as they can get it.
The TV industry is losing advertising revenue because people have discovered that you can download most TV programs from many places around the net at any time that is convenient for them. You do not have to wait for your [...]
Many of my friends complain about their jobs. They bitch and moan about their job being boring, pointless, repetitive and full of people that irk them to a point they feel it necessary to complain to me about it regularly and at length.
If you hate your job, why are you working there? Get off your [...]
